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[–] sus 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Spotify also originally got all its music by pirating it. But later it started printing money for record labels (while fucking over musicians) so all was forgiven.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

That feels a bit disingenuous. The record labels were already thoroughly fucking over musicians.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

and youtube got big hosting everything, they took years to take down hella anime, movies, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

and crunchyroll